Oscar Pistorius could be freed from jail two years EARLY due to legal blunder, court hears Judges admitted his sentence has not been backdated far enough to when he was first convicted of murder meaning he could be paroled 18 months earlier Former gold-medallist sprinter has already served 506 days of his prison term This … Read more
The mother of Reeva Steenkamp revealed how ‘she shook with anger’ at news of BBC’s Oscar Pistorius documentary after Paralympian shot her daughter dead in cold blood. June Steenkamp said the documentary trailer didn’t mention Reeva’s name which compounds the grief of the Pistorius killing her daughter, making her an ‘anonymous victim’. Critics berated the BBC for failing to … Read more
Shuffling around the exercise compound in a grim penitentiary, a bearded young man, humiliatingly clad in baggy orange overalls stamped with the word ‘CORRECTIONAL’, draws on a cigarette. Virtually the only white prisoner among hundreds of black inmates serving time for every imaginable crime, Oscar Pistorius has become a tormented, self-pitying figure. A born-again Christian, … Read more
Shuffling around the exercise compound in a grim penitentiary, a bearded young man, humiliatingly clad in baggy orange overalls stamped with the word ‘CORRECTIONAL’, draws on a cigarette. Virtually the only white prisoner among hundreds of black inmates serving time for every imaginable crime, Oscar Pistorius has become a tormented, self-pitying figure. A born-again Christian, … Read more
The BBC has pulled a trailer for a documentary on convicted murderer Oscar Pistorius after viewers criticised the broadcaster for portraying him as a victim and not naming Reeva Steenkamp, the woman he shot dead in 2013. The trailer for The Trials Of Oscar Pistorius quoted admirers of the former Paralympian hailing him as a ‘nice guy’, suggesting … Read more
Killer Paralympian Oscar Pistorius tells friend he’s desperate for forgiveness from Reeva Steenkamp’s family after shooting his girlfriend dead on Valentine’s Day 2013 The athlete is serving 13 years and five months at a low-security jail in Pretoria Pistorius shot his girlfriend Reeva four times through the door of his bathroom He was the first double amputee to … Read more